Does Australia have like a “mexican” type migrant worker?
In the USA, they have a huge illegal immigrant problem – estimates vary between 12m and 40m but nobody has any real idea of the number and there are several reasons for the massive size of the problem. Having a land border with an undeveloped nation combined with an almost total unwillingness on the part of the government to enforce immigration and employment laws are the main causes. Employers can pay illegals very low wages and get away with it so illegals (mainly Mexicans and South Americans) displace Americans who would otherwise work legally, but who would expect and be entitled to higher wages. Because of their lack of skills, you get a very large number working in low level jobs like food service, cleaning, as maids and gardeners and manual farm work. Americans like to brag about how low prices are there compared to Australian prices but much of that is to do with the fact that they have huge numbers of people working for under $5 per hour. In Australia, many of the people you’l
